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“I was very pleased,” Bush said about the sale results. “I thought a lot of the early type did very well. At the peak of the auction, we probably had 200 people in the room.”

Gold also did well in the U.S. section of the auction.

Contributing significantly to the prices realized was a $40,825 bid for an 1801 Capped Bust $10 gold piece. The coin was graded MS-62 by the Professional Coin Grading Service.

That bid sailed over the pre-auction estimate of $33,000-$38,000.

Attracting a bid of $39,387.50 was an NGC XF-40 Wass, Molitor and Co. $50 gold piece.

The catalog description said, “A coin of the size and heft of a $50 slug is assured of receiving and delivering substantial contact during use and the obverse displays a few scattered, prominent contact marks. None is individually distracting, and for that matter, they are pleasantly distributed throughout the field space, rather than concentrating a distracting effect into one area. The reverse shows rather prominent impressions of reed marks from other coins, and judging by their width, it seems likely that they were other $50s!”

This piece also attracted a bid higher than the top end of its pre-sale estimate of $15,000-$17,000.

“Here’s a surprise,” Bush exclaimed as he was reading down the list of prices realized.

He said a 1952-S Washington-Carver half dollar graded MS-67 and in a first-generation holder of the Professional Coin Grading Service was bid to $7,187.50, many multiples of uncirculated prices in slightly lower grades.

A 1796 half cent with pole graded by PCGS as genuine realized $13,800.

An 1834 half cent graded NGC Proof-64 Brown fetched $9,487.50.

Another featured lot was a Myddelton token struck by the Britain’s Soho Mint in 1796 in silver.

According to the catalog, “Myddelton wrote to (Matthew) Boulton in January 1796 outlining his plans for a token, and describing a rather less than usually imperial Britannia: with her head lowered, her spear reversed.”

It sold for $14,662.50 on an estimate of $10,000-$12,000.

Scotsman’s next auction is slated for Oct. 21 at the Silver Dollar and Rare Con Expo. Visit www.scoins.com for more information.

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